Rjs. Bates et al., THE LIMITS OF PLASTIC OPTICAL-FIBER FOR SHORT-DISTANCE HIGH-SPEED COMPUTER-DATA LINKS, Fiber and integrated optics, 12(2), 1993, pp. 199-208
The attenuation and dispersion of commercially available all-plastic s
tep-index optical fiber are the major factors limiting the maximum ach
ievable transmission distance and bit rate; this article explores thes
e limits. Calculations predict that approximately 500 Mb/s transmissio
n over 100 m of standard 0.47 NA step-index PMMA POF at 650 nm is feas
ible, and recent experimental results at up to 400 Mb/s are briefly de
scribed. The implications of having a lower loss, higher bandwidth POF
, for example, perfluorinated, graded-index PMMA, are discussed.